[Asterisk-Users] Are busy and congestion behaving differently than documented?

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Steve Gladden wrote:

> exten => 7777,1,Answer
> exten => 7777,2,busy(35)
> exten => 7777,3,Hangup

> Asterisk plays a 'busy' signal for 35 seconds
> I have also tried this with congestion (instead of busy).
> 
> What is strange is that in either case, the busy
> tones are coming from asterisk and *not* being locally generated
> by the PAP2-NA.

If the channel is answered Asterisk has to do inband (audio) tones.

--Eric
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